Need information as to how to get the .map information from a displayed .gif WITHOUT going to color cycling and entering <s>. If that can not be accomplished, is there any way to compare .map files to eliminate duplicates? I have a program which compares .map files and lists dups, but if the .map is cycled, then saved, and compared it doesn't list a duplicate since the first RGB entry is different due to the rotation. What I am looking for is a comparision for duplication regardless of the placement of the RGB values as long as they are in the identical sequence between .map files. I have multimap.exe, which is fine for comparision if the .map has not been cycled. I have a .gif for which I am trying to find the .map. I did, from a screen display, cycle the colors; then entered <s>, saved to an entered file name. Exited fractint, found the saved file and ran multimap.exe to find the .map in my .map directory. No duplicate found, although I know it is there. I then did a test: Took a known.map file, cycled it, saved as above and did a multimap comparision. No duplicate was found, and it is my guess that the cycling rotated the RGB order so that a linear comparision, while correct, is not accurate. Am I pissing into the wind? Or is there a solution somewhere? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Even negative responses. David M Fisher sunfish@intercom.net